Having had a good upbringing nowadays is a great disadvantage as it excludes you from so many things.
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The best quotes by Oscar Wilde
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
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All men are married women's property. That is the only true definition of what married women's property really is.
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How exaggerated is the importance of faith! Even in love it is but physiological, indipendently from will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not: old men want to be faithless and cannot.
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Published before 06/01/2004
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Actually, it is more probable that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, and in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
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The tragedies we survive come from outside, they're accidents. But to suffer for a mistake -ah!- that is by far the largest pain one may feel.
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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
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The unfortunate aphorism proposed on Art as a Mirror of Nature is wantonely expressed by Hamlet to convince the listeners of their absolute madness over what concerns art.
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